Zed

the Master of Shadows

JunglePatch 16.18Emerald 2+Solo queue

Win rate

47%

Pick rate

11%

Ban rate

21%

Games

676

Runes

Summoner spells

Flash + Smite
100%48%675

Starting items

Leaving the fountain

Scorchclaw Pup, Stealth Ward
22%45%148
Scorchclaw Pup
16%49%107
Scorchclaw Pup, Health Potion, Stealth Ward
15%56%104

Core build

First three legendaries, in order

Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Lord Dominik's Regards
12%58%78
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Serylda's Grudge
7.7%54%52
Voltaic Cyclosword → Bastionbreaker → Edge of Night
7.7%40%52

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity
74%48%501
Gluttonous Greaves
8.0%61%54
Mercury's Treads
6.1%—41

Later items

What fills each remaining slot

Fourth item

Edge of Night
14%57%
Serylda's Grudge
11%53%
Lord Dominik's Regards
11%59%
Endless Hunger
6.8%—

Fifth item

Edge of Night
8.0%46%
Endless Hunger
5.6%—
Serpent's Fang
4.0%—
Guardian Angel
3.4%—

Sixth item

Youmuu's Ghostblade
2.2%—

Abilities

Most-taken ability at each level

Max order·Razor Shuriken → Shadow Slash → Living Shadow

91%49%614

Level by level

SplitEveryone

The most common ability to level at each level, one to eighteen
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W	W		W
E		E						E		E	E		E
R						R						R					R

Matchups

No lane opponent has come up 60 times yet. Counters need a bigger sample than builds do — a few points either way is noise until then.

Counted from 34,456 ranked solo queue matches played on patch 16.18 by Emerald 2+ players on EUW, read from Riot's match API. Percentages are shares of the games in this lane, not of the builds listed — so three rows adding to less than 100% means the rest of the games did something else. Win rates are hidden where there are too few games to state one.